Rusty Cooley from his Rock House DVD Fretboard Autopsy Level 1

[lpgamer2]

hey, none of the shops where i live sell these dvds, can you only buy them on the internet? if so, can you use a 3v card to buy them?

[chuckbuntz]

his legato is phenomenal :P

[oilers1go1]

Govan, Holdsworth, Malmsteen, and Gilbert all still put this guy to shame. They were doing this stuff 15 years ago. You're doing nothing new, nor better.

[deathmetalguitaristx]

@oilers1go1 you havent seen chris broderick's betcha cant play this have you?

or rusty's for a matter of fact

[minorthreat141]

@oilers1go1 What's the big deal brother? Guitarists aren't allowed to sound like those who influenced them anymore? Besides, Govan, Gilbert & Rusty are all contemporaries. Each of them could probably teach the others something they don't know.

[TotalSweetness100]

is there a lesson? where he shows you the paterns, he uses when he plays really fast.??

[brandonfishas]

... THAT BACKING TRACK DOESNT HELP SHIT XD

[Hertsman50]

Great guitarist but shit teacher.

[thecompletejake]

This seems to be an overly complicated way of thinking of this exercise. He's playing 12 notes and then playing the same 12 notes 1 octave higher. I don't see a musical advantage to referring to this modally the way he does.

[MackCockstack]

@thecompletejake guitar players seem to over complicate theory and ideas in general to embarrassing degrees

[dimeowns100]

Can anyone give me the link to these backing tracks? thanks! what's up witht he numbers on rustys guitar?!

[TheBlackDahlia815]

i love the tone!! sounds really deep

[guitarttimman]

He's very good.

[TheStavrin]

Rusty is awesome guitar player,but very bad teacher!

[jessbpowers]

wait... i thought locrian was the major scale.... i do not know my modes very well at all but can someone explain how major is minor? i would think he would call it natural minor if it was just minor and not locrian minor, cause from what i know about modes he just said "major minor"

im confused.....

[raskolnikov1873]

@jessbpowers The locrian mode is the 7th mode, built from the 7th tone of the major scale. This is effectively a minor mode because the chord built from the 7th tone of the major scale is a min7flat5 chord. It is sort of correct to refer to it as a minor mode, but its really a half-diminished mode. Also, the 2nd which is Dorian, the 3rd Phrygian and the 6th Aeolian are minor. Hope that helps.

[psychosuey]

I CAN SHRED. but im retarded when it comes to the scales etc. pisses me right off. ITS ALL NUMBERS AND I DONT GET IT!

[Shivemaster]

@psychosuey just do one scale up and down full speed for every song all the time, its what the kids are doing nowadays.

[4517734]

not so that people are mislead - his instrument is flat. He's playing the Gb major scale - yet Idk why he keeps calling it G major =P He's done this in another one of his videos too - where he says he's playing a sequence of sweeps in G major - when It's actually in Gb =P

[therockhouse]

@4517734 Before dispensing advice, you have to consider what you see here is part of a full program, you are only getting one sample lessons.

Rusty explains in the begining of this program how he tunes a half step down and states that he will be referencing everything as if he is in standard tuning. This is why he asks everyone to tune to his tuning at the very beginning so they can play along.

[ShowNoMercy502]

@4517734 Most musicians do that for the sake of simplicity, so you can understand it in it's basic standard key. A lot of the kinds of people who watch instructional videos get a little confused when they think about the notes in a different tuning, so this is often the solution when it comes to videos like this. They usually clarify it's a different tuning and give the viewer a chance to tune up with them around the beginning, but stick to Standard 'notation' when 'teaching' the notes

[soloistchris666]

@4517734 G-Major shape.



[xxwantedxx]

@4517734 he probably tuned his guitar down a half-step. slash, hendrix, and Vaughn use that tuning all the time.

[devvilboyy676767]

am I the only one who thinks that what he's playing doesn't match the backing track?

[therockhouse]

@devvilboyy676767 YES YOU ARE

[jimmyleppard6]

@therockhouse no, he isn't.

[Greenwithevil]

@therockhouse NO HE'S NOT

[jrockzmyv382]

@therockhouse

He's really not... I make the nineteenth person. lol

I think he means it just feels wrong for that kind of backing track.

[Odinsgade]

@therockhouse

No he's not...

[MetalChild96]

@therockhouse no he is not!

[ChuckNorris134]

@therockhouse NO HE'S NOT

[ironwolg]

@devvilboyy676767 only when he's playing it slow but once he speeds it up it seems to fit better

[Reaper1984]

@devvilboyy676767

No, these exercises never fit in a musical contest, thats why rusty cooley is a guitar virtuoso and not a musician.

That's very common today, people know how to play, but not how to put it to good usage, sad but true.

[GRAYFOX348]

@devvilboyy676767 nope i think so too

[BvdLNL]

If you give him a coconut...

he will break it into pieces using only his left hand..

[luvz2sploogeify]

wtf?! this is level1? i guess this is level one after you finish all the other rockhouse dvds. lol

[wisd0m18]

how much is that guitar!!!!

[Cavemanseizure]

I admire his awesome techical skills, but he sometimes messes up the theory a tiny bit, for instance there is no reason to call the dorian mode "A dorian minor". Theres is no such thing.

[l3tl3v]

@Cavemanseizure Dorian actually is considered a minor scale but not THE minor. So saying A Dorian Minor is excessive not incorrect.

[ibanezxiphos700]

@Cavemanseizure

dorian is a minor mode...

[DeanFromHell1993]

rustey cooley is beyond sickness... too bad he plays in a power metal band -.-'''

[therockhouse]

Niot true at all in fact he just posted a piece on the rock house blog of him doing some really cool jazz piece.

[derdude]

rusty 'useless' cooley

[DemonofShadowFin]

hahahah his playing with the back tracking was sooooooo out of time

[guiiimoraes]

why does he play just with sweep picking when he's shreding?

[YogSothothOfGuitars]

Because he´s a bad ,uncreative shredder

[jacobwisenbach123]

@YogSothothOfGuitars you know they probley said the same thing about yngwie or holdsworth or shawn lane at one point so you know what just wait until he's dead or done making music to judge his playing because you dont have the technical skill he does or the endorsements he does damn it.... every person has their own thing just respect it

[PerpetualBurnOwns]

aww lay of rusty cooley, hes a decent shredder and there are hundreds of thousands of worse guitarists out there...he's just playing what he likes

[and3297]

@guiiimoraes dude he does alternate picking,sweep picking,multi finger tapping and ive even seen him do chicken picking! :D

[ThrashDeth17]

I need to buy these two DVDS!

[CrazyKing89]

this is exactly how I taught myself!!!!! OMG this is awesome I'm glad I did it his way lets put it like that!

[culillo1882]

Actually i think that with a good legato sequences you sounds better than playing alternate picking.

It sounds faster and more fluid

[bobfnjob]

... he's not borrowing from another mode. Just playing the same thing an octave higher. Great lesson still.

[Metallicafan13]

no its just B standard....unless he tunes half step down.

and this lesson is awesome!

[poplepo3]

i think he forgot that most people cant play that up to his speed

[odenswarriors6]

i dont think he forgot. im pretty sure he doesnt want to sit there play at everyone elses speed so he shows you slow then it does it fast to show you how to rip

[Dtyler171]

@poplepo3

He plays them slow first...?

[jacksonbaker94]

The first scale thingy he does is used in Mr. Crowley. Cept he starts on F (1st fret).

[monstersriot]

incredible video! Rusty did a great job explaining those demonic shreds

[kls4life]

the concept is pretty easy, his skill and execution- Epic.

[8stringerr]

@kls4life yeah once i learned it it made things so much easier

[zbljk]

he's a great teacher...

this will deffinetlly help...

[ibanezxiphos700]

omg i cant wait for ARPEGGIO MADNESS!!!!!!

[Dethklokalmah]

oh my effing god...i'm buying this tomorrow

[Irishsnout]

just got this video. Gotta say, it has no filler. Just the mode patterns and then gets you moving up and down the fretboard. Awesome to the point instruction, looking forward to part 2

[Ludvayne]

-Bow- We're not worthy

[1madaboutguitar]

Good, but doesn't touch Kirk Hammett

[abysmalabattoir]

Your entitled to your opinion...but don't make stupid comments like that man!

[rocknroolskool]

YOUR FUNNY! what are you 8? 10? hahaha Kirk is probally the worst metal(if you can even call metallica that anymore) guitarist out there. Dont worry you'll see even kirk thinks hes not that good.

[Carthagerocks]

no.

just no.

[VhMetalx]

you're kidding right?

[rockwizclown]

lmao!!!! wow really?! XD

u stupid fuck.

[webrokeyourbed]

this guy gets plenty of pussy :D

[VhMetalx]

what tuning is this madman in?

[DarkIntention69]

standard I would think? maybe halfstep down like uti

[Steve128967]

He usually plays in Eb I believe

[s1uff1sc001]

He has a seven string so it's Bb standard.

[surferbrah84]

Is this really from level 2? Because I have level 1 and this is on level 1.

[therockhouse]

It says level 1, I don't know what you're talking about... NAHH I just kidding, looks like I messed up when I posted this. Thanks for catching it, I made the change. Hey send me a message and I'll send you another RH video for free as a thank you. GOOD LOOKING OUT!

[Kyle072585]

@therockhouse also at the beginning it shows the cover for level 2 also. I doubt you'll want to fix that, just noticed it thats all

[MrChristophSchmidt]

got vol 1 and 2 ... amazing stuff !!

greetings from germany :-)

[uomoscozzese]

this is hilarious when he plays fast

[RyanKuhlmann]

Love that Dean guitar!

[CAVEDWELLER007]

Very sweetlesson, I loved it.

[carcosa]

It was weird because after I discovered Cooley's stuff I suddenly became completely addicted to guitar in a way that I haven't been for seven years or so. The level of systematization is higher than any other material I've seen-- other stuff either is a mess of disconnected techniques (Friedman, Gilbert tapes) or throws a gigantic pile of data at you without explaining it. Cooley does an amazing job of giving you lots of CONNECTED material with great explanations... and tendonitis

[ducky811]

I totally agree with you. Rusty is just a genius when it comes to explaining as well as demonstrating ideas. He truly has the heart of a teacher. It's not about what he can do. It's about others understanding the ideas and how to impliment them into their playing.

[jacobandnick321]

yeah dude i know what you mean! But it ight have to do with the fact that he has been playing since the early 80's (i think 83) and has been teaching ever since his 3rd year playing.

[ExtremeBogom]

@carcosa

Rusty's instructionals really catapulted my playing too.

Before I saw his chops from hell stuff, I'd seen basically a mix of all the shrapnel dude's reh / hot licks tapes, and (as you said) were mostly a lot of licks without much theory explanation. Vinnie Moore explained it well, but I already knew theory by then.

I have a lot to thank Rusty for. He REALLY mapped out the fretboard for me.

I wish he didn't get all this negative shit. Guess people can't handle his wrath lol.

[carcosa]

This one thing alone, this clip and the other, are worth probably 2 months of practice time. You could literally sit on just this forever and never run out of ideas. More instructionals need to be like this. I think rusty really is a musical genius, more so than 99% of even shred guitar players who can go through the motions really well but don't really think about what they're doing, or can't (or are unwilling to) articulate it.

[carcosa]

One other thing-- do NOT start shredding this stuff 12 hours a day like I did or you're looking at a 6 month vacation from guitar due to repetitive stress injury. 4 hours a day every day and no more than that.

And ice.

[pgm23432]

well as long as you warm up adequately you'll be fine. over the summers i practice 12 hours a day and i have never had any problems (and this is after two years of doing this). guys like vai did it too.

[carcosa]

I did warm up adequately. I've been playing for 20 years. I think I just played too much and started an extremely intense practice schedule suddenly. Then I didn't stop immediately when I started noticing symptoms.

I think maybe you need to build up to the long sessions little by little over time.

[pgm23432]

oh i understand what your saying now. i definitely agree with that. maybe increase an hour every week or so.

[sexyuglyman]

lol

[RussianCivilian]

i played his guitar at a SamAsh. I was disappointed. Munky's 7 string was freakin sick, much better than his.

[psychostew911]

I think his Ibanez was/is better

[Deliratio]

he's an awesme guitarist but everything he plays sounds like an exercise on high speed.

[ChaosRiddenReaper]

OMFG ude is super fast lol

[ibanezdudeck]

What song is that at the begining when its showing the pictures?

view 99

[ibanezxiphos700]

"I. thanatos" by outworld which is rustys band if you didnt know

[DVNZYHR777]

77!

[horrifik112]

3rd comment yay

[metalheaven420]

12th ahah

[crapbag2008]

1st veiw woo